Appium vs Perfecto comparison

Why PeerSpot?

The compared Appium and Perforce solutions aren't in the same category. Appium is ranked #10 in MDP , with an average rating of 7.3, and holds a 2.9% mindshare in the category. Perforce is ranked #6 in MTT , and holds a 6.7% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Appium users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Perforce users who would recommend it.

Appium

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93% willing to recommend

Perfecto

Read 23 Perfecto reviews

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1,345 Comparison Views

88% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Appium

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Mobile Development Platforms (10th), Regression Testing Tools (8th)

Perfecto

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Performance Testing Tools (13th), Functional Testing Tools (20th), Mobile App Testing Tools (6th), Test Automation Tools (21st)

Mindshare comparison

Appium and Perfecto aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Appium is designed for Mobile Development Platforms and holds a mindshare of 2.9%, down 3.9% compared to last year.
Perfecto, on the other hand, focuses on Mobile App Testing Tools, holds 6.7% mindshare, up 5.0% since last year.

Mobile Development Platforms Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Appium	2.9%
OutSystems	9.3%
Mendix	8.4%
Other	79.4%

Mobile Development Platforms

Mobile App Testing Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Perfecto	6.7%
Tricentis Tosca	22.8%
OpenText Functional Testing	20.7%
Other	49.8%

Mobile App Testing Tools

Featured Reviews

APARNA SAHA

Independent consultant, at OpenText

Efficient mobile testing with intuitive emulation capabilities and a user-friendly interface

Initial setup for Appium (especially for iOS) is not beginner-friendly.Consumes too much of your host machine's resources, potentially slowing down the machine.Appium Inspector often lacks deep insight or crashes with certain app builds. Improve test flakiness by intelligently selecting robust self-healing locators,simplified installers, better documentation, GUI-based config management,smart wait mechanisms and better failure logs.

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Rodrigo Candido Costa

Software Quality and Automation Specialist at PRIME CONTROL

The solution saves us money because the cost of each license is 10 times lower than what we would spend to maintain infrastructure here

Sometimes, when the automated tests sync up or we have to debug remotely, we cannot interact directly with the device. We can interact with the code in the debugging tool, but we cannot directly click on the element on the screen or send other kinds of inputs to the device. This is possible with other tools. Also, it would be nice if there were some kind of API to get a list of available devices. Currently, we have to look at the web interface to see the available devices, but the pipelines can't do it on their own there. We always need to do this manually, so it would be better if this feature was automated.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It can be used with different programming languages."

"For our company, Appium's similarity with Selenium is important as we use Selenium."

"We chose Appium for the scalability and the ease of automation for both Android and iOS."

"The solution is easy to use."

"The latest versions of the solution are stable."

"Our clients have realized benefits by reducing their testing cycle from three days to three hours through Appium."

"Appium has easy interaction with mobile."

"Appium is a great tool, and I recommend it."

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"Overall, it has helped massively to speed up our testing efforts and not just from a device point of view."

"Overall, it results in huge cost savings for our company."

"Their team is really great to work with. They're very flexible, and they always show care. They prioritize our work, our company, and our working relationship. I appreciate the ad hoc sessions that they schedule to provide help with troubleshooting, provide the information that we're looking for, or do a demo of a new feature that they have. They're always willing and very quick to get that scheduled for us. I appreciate that a lot."

"In terms of cross-platform testing, they offer all of it, every device available in the market. It covers real scenarios that mimic production so that we don't miss out on any devices that our clients might be using to run the applications we develop. It's been great and very helpful."

"Mobile testing is the most valuable feature as it has reduced dependency on physical devices. We are located offshore and we don't have the physical devices, and shipping physical devices after every new release would be a difficult task. But with Perfecto, it is easy."

"I also like the reporting functions. We are constantly downloading these reports and sharing them with our final customers. They help us understand what kind of bugs are happening through the applications. The recording feature is handy because it lets us see a video of the process we run through the pipeline and discover the point at which the automation is breaking."

"The most valuable feature is automated testing."

"Perfecto has affected our software quality in a good way. It has allowed us to execute on-demand and on-choice. We also track the number of issues that we find in the product. Every single day, we tag the issues that we found. For example, if something was found by automation, that means it was found by a Perfecto execution. Over time, we realized the real value in tracking those numbers. We can see now that we have clearly been finding issues earlier. It has allowed us to catch our defects earlier, thus improving the quality of our applications."

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Cons

"Appium has problems with automated validations following iOS updates, causing us to have to validate manually. Its execution speed is also very slow."

"Support-wise, it could be better."

"It needs to accommodate applications that use React.js and AngularJS."

"I rarely use Appium nowadays because I'm now at the managerial level, but the last time I used it, whenever I selected and clicked on an element, Appium was very slow. I tried to debug it, but I still couldn't find the problem, so this is an area for improvement in the solution. Another area for improvement lies with the connector and server. For example, the effort to get into the local machine sometimes causes the emulator to become slow, which then leads to failure in testing, and this is the usual issue I've encountered from Appium. An additional feature I'd like added to Appium in its next release is being able to do automation in iOS without using XPath and the name of the element. In Xcode, you can use previous UI tests for detecting elements, but in Appium, you have to use Xpath and the element name instead of being able to directly put the X-UiPath, which is what you can do in Xcode. In iOS as well, sometimes the element doesn't have a name or a path. Sometimes, there's also no element."

"It should provide reliable and promising executions every time without any interruptions and avoiding any synchronization issues."

"The setup and installation were a problem for us at first."

"It breaks down."

"The product was a bit difficult to install. It wasn’t easy. We had issues."

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"Its performance should be improved. Anything to speed up the user interface would be a great help. We've had a lot of pain with their migration from a product UI that was based on Adobe Flash to the new product that is based on HTML5. Migrations like that seemed to be very painful and not a real smooth process. We're still sort of recovering from that migration from old technology to new, and we haven't got all the functionality ported over that we used to have on the old UI."

"I'm hoping they can support on-premises instances. We have been working on a JIRA integration with Perfecto—and I'm extremely impressed that they have that—but at this time they're not supporting onsite JIRA instances, which is what we have."

"Going by the dashboard or analytics capabilities that Perfecto or Perforce is looking to offer in its roadmap, it will certainly help if they also cater to executing and enabling decision-making, rather than just focusing on standard testing metrics such as execution, efficiency, and defect rate. These are good metrics, but they don't necessarily enable decision-making for SLTs. Any improvements in the dashboards and reporting tools should focus on metrics or SLAs that can help with decision-making."

"On the analytics side, Perfecto is in need of improvement."

"When using devices on the cloud, it lags quite a bit at times. I know that these are real devices that are being projected on our laptop screens and monitors, but if the speed could be improved, that would be good."

"There could be some improvements done on the interface. At times, there has been a bit of a struggle when finding things on the interface. A UI revamp would be a better option in future. That UI hasn't changed much in a long time, so I think they could just make it a bit better so that people could find stuff easily and intuitively."

"We have had some issues with performance, which is something that should be improved."

"In iOS, it needs improvements with some limitations."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing of Appium is fine."

"It's open source, so it's completely free."

"I'm unsure if there's any cost associated with Appium. I got the free package which includes the server GUI application and the inspector application, and it was free to download, and that's all I need to get my work done. I'm not aware of any additional costs associated with the tool."

"We found out that we could explore features of the solution for 30 days trial. We can switch to a permanent license later if we want."

"There is no license for this solution because it is open-source."

"This is an open source solution so it does not cost anything for licensing or otherwise."

"The solution is open source so it is free."

"Appium is open source; we can use it for free."

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"Although Perfecto is a good product for us to use, it is a bit expensive. It takes management a bit of work to find the appropriate funding for us to keep Perfecto. I imagine there could be some way to make it more accessible."

"Perfecto's price is excellent compared to other products with similar features. It was the lowest of the three we evaluated. We also established a partnership with Perfecto, so they provide discounts when we sell Perfecto projects and licenses to our customers."

"This is an expensive solution compared to others, by 30% to 40%."

"Pricing is an area where Perfecto can do a little better. When we obtain additional licenses, we enter into negotiations with them."

"Perfecto has definitely saved us on the costs and efforts of having to maintain our own virtual test environment. We lost about 20 devices in the past to maintenance and audit. That was a massive loss for us, as a company, because we were giving devices to someone, but don't know whether we would get it back or not. Having those virtual labs, we don't need to worry about these kinds of things. We are easily saving $5,000 to $10,000 a month on device costing."

"Pricing-wise, it is fine. It is not as expensive as what we used to have in the past from HP, IBM, and others. It is decently priced."

"It's definitely on the higher end of prices for this type of service."

"Perfecto is about 30-40% cheaper than Device Anywhere. That was a big reason why we switched. Perfecto also solves some of the issues that we had with Device Anywhere. We have grown by 100% since we started to use Perfecto, and now we have devices roaming. When we look at the competition, we would still stick with Perfecto."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Construction Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Construction Company

12%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	19

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	1
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	23

Questions from the Community

Do you recommend Appium?

I do recommend Appium. It is an open-source solution and completely free of charge. We use Appium and Appium Studio as our base for any type of mobile automation for testing. It has a great interfa...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Appium?

My experience with Appium from a pricing perspective is favorable due to it being open source, making it a cost-effective option.

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What needs improvement with Appium?

The deployment process and configuration are quite complex and require improvement. Additionally, the wait time functionality could be enhanced as I experienced failures with longer wait times.

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Overview

Appium facilitates seamless automation of iOS and Android mobile applications, interfacing smoothly with CI/CD pipelines and enabling cross-platform development. Its open-source framework supports diverse coding languages, enhancing test automation.

Appium stands out for its ability to automate mobile apps across multiple platforms, backed by a strong community and extensive language compatibility. It integrates with continuous integration and delivery workflows, with robust tools like Appium Inspector enhancing element identification. It offers an interface familiar to Selenium users and supports versatile scripting, easing the mobile app testing process for developers. While it provides scalability and simple connectivity, users seek enhancements in stability, speed, and platform integration, specifically with iOS and cloud solutions.

What are Appium's Key Features?

Cross-Platform Support: Enables seamless interaction with mobile apps on Android and iOS.
Programming Language Compatibility: Extensive support for multiple programming languages.
CI/CD Integration: Robust integration with CI/CD pipelines for continuous testing.
Appium Inspector: Tool for effective element identification in apps.
Open Source: Offers scalable and flexible testing solutions without licensing costs.

What Benefits Do Users Look for in Reviews?

Ease of Use: Simple setup and connectivity for streamlined testing.
Familiar Interface: Supports seasoned Selenium users with a common interface.
Comprehensive Automation: Provides functionality for end-to-end regression testing.
Community Support: Strong community offering resources and troubleshooting.
Scalability: Easily handles testing of apps at various scales.

Appium is widely utilized in industries such as healthcare, logistics, and construction for the automation of iOS and Android apps. Companies integrate it into their DevOps practices for continuous testing, using it in hybrid deployments and linking with tools like GitHub Actions and Jira for efficient test management.

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Perfecto is a cloud-based testing platform that supports automated and manual testing processes across many devices and operating systems, facilitating cross-platform and real-time data access. Users experience seamless testing integrations, although improvements are sought in some areas.

Perfecto provides extensive mobile testing capabilities across iOS, Android, and more, with automation and enhanced reporting options such as video recordings. While it excels with Appium and Selenium integration for cross-platform consistency and CI Dashboard features, it faces challenges in iOS web testing and hybrid apps. Users indicate the need for better integration with test management tools, dashboard metrics improvements, and machine learning features. Cloud device response times and UI interactions could benefit from performance enhancements, while users desire longer report history and API automation advancements.

What are Perfecto's most important features?

Cloud-based Architecture: Access a vast array of devices and OS versions for testing scalability.
Automation: Supports Selenium and Appium for streamlined testing processes.
Enhanced Reporting: Offers video recordings to help validate tests thoroughly.
Cross-platform Testing: Execute tests across multiple platforms efficiently.
Real-time Data Access: Monitor tests via CI Dashboard and Live Stream.

What benefits or ROI can users expect from reviews?

Increased Device Availability: Quickly access the newest devices and software updates.
Improved Testing Speed: Allow faster test execution and feedback loops.
Scalability: Easily scale up or down with cloud-based resources.
Enhanced Productivity: Automate tests and streamline reporting for efficiency.

Perfecto has broad applications in industries such as retail, finance, and technology, where secure and scalable testing is critical. Organizations employ it in both private and public cloud environments for mobile, web, and API testing. Its ability to provide extensive device coverage and integration into existing CI/CD processes makes it integral for ensuring reliable mobile app performance and compatibility across platforms.

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